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No. 24 3,051. I Patented June 1.4. 1881.

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, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY G. YATES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,051, dated June 14, 1881.

Application filed April 9, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY G. Yarns, of the cityand State of New York, have invented an Improved Horseshoe; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the under side of the shoe. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 3 y of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on the line w as of Fig. 1.

My invention relates to that class of horseshoes provided with a spring to break the concussion of the tread of the horse, and is an improvement on Letters Patent No. 217,187 issued to me July 1, 1879.

In the use of the shoe as described in the aforesaid Letters Patent, I have found that the constant impact of a hard roadway against the toe portion of the lower face of the shoe tends to set up the spring portion at the point of juncture with the shoe proper, and thereby destroy the efficiency of the spring. To remedy this evil I construct the shoe so that at the toe portion the main impact of the roadway is received upon the shoe proper, and this I accomplish by cutting away the lower face of the spring portion in a gradually-decreasing curved bevel from the point of j uncture of the spring portion with the shoe proper.

In the use of the shoe described in the before-mentioned patent I have also discovered that it is desirable to increase the contactsurf'aces between the shoe proper and the spring portion where the spring is closed beyond the lapping surfaces at the extreme points of the spring, and this I accomplish by male ing the out which severs the spring portion from the main shoe in a plane diagonal to the plane of the upper face of the shoe, the diagonal line raking from the central point of the shoe outwardly.

The remedies stated for the objections described constitute my invention.

In order that those skilled in the art may make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

In the said drawings,A represents the main 5o shoe, and B the spring portion, having their diagonally-lappingends. AtthepointO, where the spring portion and the body of the shoe merge, I cut away the metal toward the inner curve in a gradually-decreasing proportion toward the ends of the spring portion, thereby making that portion of the lower face of the shoe forming the spring concave in a grad[tally-decreasing curve toward the heel. This concave face afl'ords a good holding-sur- 6o face on any yielding roadway, and with great facility catches over curved irregularities of a cobble-stone pavement. The stride of the horse will force snow or mud rearwardly out of the shoe, as there is no vertical wall in the front 6 of the inner curve of the shoe to retain them.

In swag-ing my improved shoe the dies are made so that the dividing out a b is struck in a diagonal line raking outwardly from the central line of the shoe and the plane of its upper face, as seen in Fig. 3.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

- l. A horseshoe provided with an integral spring portion swaged below the plane of the lower face of the shoe, and the metal of the lower face of the spring portion cut away or beveled inwardly from the toe portion, gradually decreasing around toward the heel, for the purpose set forth.

2. A horseshoe having its sides divided longitudinally in a plane diagonal to the face of the shoe, and the inner portion swaged below the plane of the outer portion, substantially as and for the purpose described.

HENRY G". YATES.

Witnesses:

R. R. EVANS, JNo. L. (JoNDRoN. 

